The Renaissance Movement

By Cynthia Carrizales

The Renaissance Movement

This movement originated in Italy and spanned from the 14th to the 17th century. Renaissance means rebirth in French,

and it began in Florence, Tuscany in the Middle Ages and later spread to the rest

of Europe.

Artists during the Renaissance

• Giotto di Bondone

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Sandro Botticelli

• Raphael

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Giovanni Bellini

Renaissance Art Movement

The Italian Renaissance was noted for four things.

• A reverent revival of Classical Greek/Roman art forms and styles

• A faith in the nobility of Man (Humanism)• The mastery of linear perspective (depth in a

painting)• The naturalistic realism of its faces and figures

Renaissance • Italian Renaissance artists and thinkers became inspired by the ideas and forms of

ancient Greece and Rome. This was perfectly in tune with their desire to create a universal, even noble form of art which could express the new and more confident mood of the times.

• Humanism is the secular cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that spread throughout Europe as a result of the rediscovery of the arts and philosophy of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Early Renaissance artists strove to achieve greater realism in all their works.

• Linear perspective is a form of perspective in which drawings or paintings are given apparent depth by showing parallel lines as converging on the horizon. Great efforts were made to create realistic 'depth' in paintings during the renaissance.

• Faces now became more life-like (naturalistic), bodies were painted in more realistic postures and poses, and figures began to express real emotion.

The Renaissance Chronology

• The Proto-Renaissance Period (1300-1400) Italian art was dominated by religious painting and architecture. The covent church of St. Francis at Assisi was decorated entirely in fresco by Cimabue (Cennidi Peppi) one of the most famous artists of the day. He had a young assistant named Giotto di Bondone. Giotto's figures have a three-dimensional quality, a sense of depth and space, achieved through Giotto's unprecedented use of modelling, shadow and perspective. The European Cultural Revolution had begun. Giotto's innovative mastery of disegno and new realism would lay the foundations for later Italian movements known as Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, and Mannerism. North of the Alps, Giotto's work would be further developed and refined in the Northern Renaissance.

• The Early Renaissance Period (1400-1490) Humanistic philosophy placed Man at the centre of things, and in the visual arts this led to a close study of the human body, a return to the nude and, leading on from this, a preoccupation with nature in all its forms.

The Renaissance Chronology

• The High Renaissance Period (1490-1530) This golden age - perhaps the most creative era in the history of art - set the standards in both fine art painting and sculpture for centuries to come. Famous artist from this period Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Giorgione, Paolo Veronese, and Tiziano Vecellio.

• The Northern Renaissance (1430-1580) The Renaissance was emerging in Italy,

and a similar phenomenon was occurring in the Low Countries of Flanders and Holland, and Germany. Northern art is practical, down-to-earth and dispassionate. This affected the popularity of the painting genres, and we see history painting gradually giving way to portrait art, genre-painting, and still life, especially after the Reformation (c.1520) when the Church in Rome ceased to be a major patron of the arts in Northern Europe.

• The Mannerism Period (1530-1600) Mannerist art include: tension, emotionalism, elongation of the human figure, strained poses, unusual effects of scale, lighting or perspective, vivid often lurid colours. Mannerist art contained more movement, expression, drama, sensuality, colour - more of almost everything. It also reflected the political scene following the sack of Rome in 1527.

Giotto di BondoneThe Lamentation

1305-1306 91 x 93 inArena Chapel in Padua

• Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, (184 K)1498

Fresco 460 x 880 cm

Sandro Botticelli Madonna of the Magnifocat (72 K)c.1485

Tempera on Panel, diameter 118 cm

Raphael Santi, The School of Athens (181 K)1509-10

Fresco, 770 cm wideStanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Vaticani, Rome

Michelangelo BuonarrotiCreation of Adam

Ceiling of Sistine Chapel 1510

Giovanni BelliniSt. Francis in the Wilderness

Ca. 1485

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